I think on the whole your luck will depend on your particular field, your degree, and most importantly your skill level.
I am a UNIX admin, 10 years experience, currently admin'ing about 1000 Sun servers. I am definitely a "new school" type admin, utilizing Perl and other tools to work smarter, not harder. B.S. degree in science/math field from large university.
I haven't found the market to be horrible in the Philadelphia/Delaware area. I think I've been lucky, but I have not ever taken a pay cut to this day.
I think good UNIX and network people will be in demand for the forseeable future. Not so sure about Windows admins and coders.
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very true, this was probably giving/. crowd too much credit. g0atsex and FP -- nuff' said.
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I think maybe some people are missing the point here.
74K shouldn't *get* you anything. I make well over that but when I was dating I never let on that I made that kind of money. I dress like a typical guy, drive a typical car, live in a typical place. Hell, I got flat ignored at a Honda dealer when I was trying to buy a car, and I wasn't going to be financing--blank check was in pocket ready to pay.
If you're smart, you date 10's, and you marry 7-8's with great personalities and intellect. All the hot in the world doesn't mean a damn thing if you can't have an intelligent conversation with her. This, of course, is assuming that you yourself are able to carry on an intelligent conversation, but given the audience here, the vast majority of us are.
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so I hope the spouse's question about the CEO's pay was rhetorical, since it must be disclosed by EA. He makes $1.45 million per year, but last year alone he made $22 million through stock option sales.
The CEO and most everyone else seems to do nothing but sell his stock at every opportunity. They have more insider activity than most huge companies. Interesting.
My advice: if you don't agree with EA practices, dont buy any of their products. Hit them where it hurts, and if they lay people off, you're doing those workers a favor anyhow.
I have bought 2 cd's in the past 3-4 years, not because I am pirating or downloading, but because I firmly believe the RIAA are the biggest crooks in this picture and refuse to support them.
I believe the RIAA will rape their artists every which way they possibly can, and cheat them out of their royalties at every chance. Given this, I find it more than a little ironic that the RIAA campaigns against piracy by boldly proclaiming that downloaders are cheating the artists.
Here's to hoping that sales continue to decline until the RIAA crumbles entirely out of the picture.
most people with sensorineural loss do not have conduction problems (myself included). as long as the frequency response of these "earphones" can extend to even 8000Hz they would be useful for amplifying human speech. but they must be fairly responsive of they wouldnt be used in this product for conveying music.
The more I think about it, the more interested I become!
my dell in 1995 was $3000 and was hardly cutting edge. it was a pentium 75 in a time when the pentium 90 and 120 were top. it had 16 MB ram and a 1GB drive. 17 inch sony trinitron, not some behemoth 21-inch. $3000 included win95 but not office 95.
I have to disagree with the original premise. I would sooner agree that piracy is encouraged by cheaper hardware.
think back to 1995 when the average decent PC cost almost $3000. adding $300 worth of software constituted 10% of the hardware price and was easy to justify.
now a decent computer can be had for $600. add $300 worth of software to it and it constitutes a whopping 50% of the hardware price!! this is not to mention how little legitimate software $300 will buy today.
This is the same reason I can't convince family members to buy a $600 19-inch flat panel. they reason that the monitor should not cost the same amount as the computer and then go looking for a $200 monitor that theyre going to hate.
but seriously, this is definitely not the same as leaving your door unlocked. people cannot drive by your house and instantly know that your door is unlocked.
I agree that if you have WEP enabled, weak though it is, if someone breaks it you have a reason to complain (until 802.11i is widely available).
if you do not understand the implications of installing and securing wifi, you should NOT be using it. period.
What a fucking ignorant post. I worked with the researchers you moron, not the people who physically built the thing. Last time I checked, studying solar dust is a little different than building rockets.
At any rate, the people who physically built it have lost nothing today (maybe a little self-respect), only my friends who have spent the last 6-7 years of their lives working on this to gain knowledge of the dust composition for their calculations and those of other scientists.
I would guess that they are better off having hit land than water in terms of recovering ANY useful data from the collector plates. But I am also guessing that since they feared that even a parachute landing would not be soft enough (hence the need for mid-air retrieval) then this "landing" has completely fucked their data. Sad.
the collectors are some of the purest plates known to man. these things would make a clean-room look like a sewage dump.
solar particles will have embedded themselves into the plates which would be analyzed after recapture, so no, there is nothing harmful. naturally occurring terrestrial compounds are far more deadly than anything that could be on that probe.
I personally worked side by side with some of the key researchers on this project, including the PI. I cannot imagine how they must feel seeing 7 years of their life go down the drain when this thing slammed into the ground. =(
A lot of people will wanna play the blame game, but in the end the scientists just really wanted their data. really sad.
last time I checked, my VW GTi is a computing device and has tons of internal LEDs illuminating portions of it's shell (red and blue LED dashboard, green turn signals)
I guess VW just trumped the patent with prior art, and probably 3-4 other car makers
why anyone would put a Windows machine directly on a cable modem in the first place is beyond me. who in th geek crowd doesnt have a POS computer sitting around to load openbsd and configure as a firewall/NAT??
now, for the tech-challenged community, I think the responsibility should fall on MS and cable companies. MS should definitely be allowing pirated copies to update, and cable companies should encourge customers to NEVER hook a windows box directly to a cable modem.
thank you! people saying that the Opteron is going to crush Sun is almost as dumb as people saying the Celeron is going to crush Dell.
Sun's current Opteron lineup is *very* impressive and their roadmap is even more impressive. They compare extremely favorably with Dell server offerings, and Dell is their main competitor in this arena IMHO.
It's a good time to be a consumer because Dell makes very nice and inexpesive cabinets that you can fill with your new Sun gear =)
EXACTLY. Sun isnt going anywhere. they have already said they cut the Ultra Sparc 5 so they could FULLY concentrate efforts on much better products.
And just wait until their line of Opteron servers gets into full swing. if you havent checked them out, you should since they are going to give most companies out there a run for their money...
build packages from source exactly how you want them , make a tarball of that, and then use ssh and key trusts to shoot them out everywhere (this coming from a person who maintains almost 1000 servers)
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I think on the whole your luck will depend on your particular field, your degree, and most importantly your skill level.
I am a UNIX admin, 10 years experience, currently admin'ing about 1000 Sun servers. I am definitely a "new school" type admin, utilizing Perl and other tools to work smarter, not harder. B.S. degree in science/math field from large university.
I haven't found the market to be horrible in the Philadelphia/Delaware area. I think I've been lucky, but I have not ever taken a pay cut to this day.
I think good UNIX and network people will be in demand for the forseeable future. Not so sure about Windows admins and coders.
very true, this was probably giving /. crowd too much credit. g0atsex and FP -- nuff' said.
I think maybe some people are missing the point here.
74K shouldn't *get* you anything. I make well over that but when I was dating I never let on that I made that kind of money. I dress like a typical guy, drive a typical car, live in a typical place. Hell, I got flat ignored at a Honda dealer when I was trying to buy a car, and I wasn't going to be financing--blank check was in pocket ready to pay.
If you're smart, you date 10's, and you marry 7-8's with great personalities and intellect. All the hot in the world doesn't mean a damn thing if you can't have an intelligent conversation with her. This, of course, is assuming that you yourself are able to carry on an intelligent conversation, but given the audience here, the vast majority of us are.
so I hope the spouse's question about the CEO's pay was rhetorical, since it must be disclosed by EA. He makes $1.45 million per year, but last year alone he made $22 million through stock option sales.
The CEO and most everyone else seems to do nothing but sell his stock at every opportunity. They have more insider activity than most huge companies. Interesting.
My advice: if you don't agree with EA practices, dont buy any of their products. Hit them where it hurts, and if they lay people off, you're doing those workers a favor anyhow.
I have bought 2 cd's in the past 3-4 years, not because I am pirating or downloading, but because I firmly believe the RIAA are the biggest crooks in this picture and refuse to support them.
I believe the RIAA will rape their artists every which way they possibly can, and cheat them out of their royalties at every chance. Given this, I find it more than a little ironic that the RIAA campaigns against piracy by boldly proclaiming that downloaders are cheating the artists.
Here's to hoping that sales continue to decline until the RIAA crumbles entirely out of the picture.
most people with sensorineural loss do not have conduction problems (myself included). as long as the frequency response of these "earphones" can extend to even 8000Hz they would be useful for amplifying human speech. but they must be fairly responsive of they wouldnt be used in this product for conveying music.
The more I think about it, the more interested I become!
I wonder about the possibilities of this technology for certain types of hearing impairment.
my bone-conduction hearing is far better than my air-conduction hearing in tests. they could be onto something here...
my dell in 1995 was $3000 and was hardly cutting edge. it was a pentium 75 in a time when the pentium 90 and 120 were top. it had 16 MB ram and a 1GB drive. 17 inch sony trinitron, not some behemoth 21-inch. $3000 included win95 but not office 95.
I have to disagree with the original premise. I would sooner agree that piracy is encouraged by cheaper hardware.
think back to 1995 when the average decent PC cost almost $3000. adding $300 worth of software constituted 10% of the hardware price and was easy to justify.
now a decent computer can be had for $600. add $300 worth of software to it and it constitutes a whopping 50% of the hardware price!! this is not to mention how little legitimate software $300 will buy today.
This is the same reason I can't convince family members to buy a $600 19-inch flat panel. they reason that the monitor should not cost the same amount as the computer and then go looking for a $200 monitor that theyre going to hate.
ok ok we get it, now back to wild monkey sex!! =)
but seriously, this is definitely not the same as leaving your door unlocked. people cannot drive by your house and instantly know that your door is unlocked.
I agree that if you have WEP enabled, weak though it is, if someone breaks it you have a reason to complain (until 802.11i is widely available).
if you do not understand the implications of installing and securing wifi, you should NOT be using it. period.
making quantum leaps in speech recognition has tremendous potential for deaf and hard-of-hearing (I am the latter)
Imagine being in a meeting (almost always a problem for hearing impaired people) and having real-time subtitles.
$1 million is a TINY price considering upwards of 20% of the nation has some hearing loss and hearing aids cost on the order of $4000 a pair.
What a fucking ignorant post. I worked with the researchers you moron, not the people who physically built the thing. Last time I checked, studying solar dust is a little different than building rockets.
At any rate, the people who physically built it have lost nothing today (maybe a little self-respect), only my friends who have spent the last 6-7 years of their lives working on this to gain knowledge of the dust composition for their calculations and those of other scientists.
I would guess that they are better off having hit land than water in terms of recovering ANY useful data from the collector plates. But I am also guessing that since they feared that even a parachute landing would not be soft enough (hence the need for mid-air retrieval) then this "landing" has completely fucked their data. Sad.
the collectors are some of the purest plates known to man. these things would make a clean-room look like a sewage dump.
solar particles will have embedded themselves into the plates which would be analyzed after recapture, so no, there is nothing harmful. naturally occurring terrestrial compounds are far more deadly than anything that could be on that probe.
I personally worked side by side with some of the key researchers on this project, including the PI. I cannot imagine how they must feel seeing 7 years of their life go down the drain when this thing slammed into the ground. =(
A lot of people will wanna play the blame game, but in the end the scientists just really wanted their data. really sad.
I thoroughly challenge your knowledge of a car's computing system. my car has more computing power than most computers 5 years ago.
yeah, the PRIMARY function of my car is transportation, but that doesnt make it any less of a computer.
last time I checked, my VW GTi is a computing device and has tons of internal LEDs illuminating portions of it's shell (red and blue LED dashboard, green turn signals)
I guess VW just trumped the patent with prior art, and probably 3-4 other car makers
I guess what I find amusing about this is that very few of the CPUs nowadays are manufactured in the USA. Taiwan, Germany, etc.
So we bring them here when complete and then decide they can't leave the country?? heh.
why anyone would put a Windows machine directly on a cable modem in the first place is beyond me. who in th geek crowd doesnt have a POS computer sitting around to load openbsd and configure as a firewall/NAT??
now, for the tech-challenged community, I think the responsibility should fall on MS and cable companies. MS should definitely be allowing pirated copies to update, and cable companies should encourge customers to NEVER hook a windows box directly to a cable modem.
thank you! people saying that the Opteron is going to crush Sun is almost as dumb as people saying the Celeron is going to crush Dell.
Sun's current Opteron lineup is *very* impressive and their roadmap is even more impressive. They compare extremely favorably with Dell server offerings, and Dell is their main competitor in this arena IMHO.
It's a good time to be a consumer because Dell makes very nice and inexpesive cabinets that you can fill with your new Sun gear =)
EXACTLY. Sun isnt going anywhere. they have already said they cut the Ultra Sparc 5 so they could FULLY concentrate efforts on much better products.
And just wait until their line of Opteron servers gets into full swing. if you havent checked them out, you should since they are going to give most companies out there a run for their money...
Actually, I *have* used it. and I think it absolutely SUCKS, not to mention the slowest thing this side of a 486sx33.
I also feel qualified to make this judgement, since I currently admin nealy 1000 sunfire servers and have been a unix admin for a tad under a decade.
At home, I actually prefer a Windows desktop, while at work I feel most productive using a Linux desktop. *shrug*
Earth to Slashdot readers:
Sun's Java Desktop that they are so fervently pushing is LINUX based.
Solaris is a very good OS for servers, but blows for desktops for the most part.
build packages from source exactly how you want them , make a tarball of that, and then use ssh and key trusts to shoot them out everywhere (this coming from a person who maintains almost 1000 servers)
it works very well.
Let's hope AutoZone countersues the living daylights out of SCO.
Would this qualify as extortion or racketeering? =)